{"id":23282,"date":"2014-12-15T05:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:28:16","slug":"the-great-martian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23282","title":{"rendered":"The Great Martian War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an unusual tribute to WW I, the History Channel created an allegorical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.co.uk\/shows\/the-great-martian-war\">secret history<\/a> of a war against Martian invaders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On its 100th anniversary, The Great Martian War tells the story of the catastrophic events and unimaginable horrors of 1913-17, when Humankind was pitted against a savage Alien invasion.<\/p>\n<p>With powerful and detailed First World War parallels, The Great Martian War fuses sci-fi fantasy with specialist factual history to explore the real-world tragedies and unique horror of World War One.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The accompanying video is weirdly plausible.<\/p>\n<p>(There are a lot of complaints about the choice of music, so watch it with the sound off if it irritates you.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/107454954?color=ff9933\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an unusual tribute to WW I, the History Channel created an allegorical secret history of a war against Martian invaders. On its 100th anniversary, The Great Martian War tells the story of the catastrophic events and unimaginable horrors of 1913-17, when Humankind was pitted against a savage Alien invasion. With powerful and detailed First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions\/23305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}